![]() For Mac users who rely on Gmail, I believe it’s the best email experience available today. Mimestream has finally emerged from beta, with version 1.0 now available for download and promoting ten new features (plus a discount) to encourage both its 167,000 beta testers and newcomers to become paying customers. ![]() At first, he was the only person working on Mimestream, but as he got closer to completing his checklist of core features, he brought on additional people, building a team of five. Even though I’ve used it as my daily driver, I also submitted 46 bug reports and have had numerous discussions with developer Neil Jhaveri about interface intricacies and email oddities. In some ways, it’s hard to remember that Mimestream has been in beta all this time, given how much time I’ve spent in it since switching to it in November 2020.īut beta was the correct designation for Mimestream. We’ve been writing about its betas for years, starting with Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s “ Mimestream Brings Gmail Features to a Mac Email App” (25 September 2020) and continuing through numerous Watchlist updates. The Gmail-specific email app Mimestream is what I want to tell you about today. I noted there that Arc had become the default dashboard for much of what I do, so much so that I had moved my email to my secondary screen. Most recently, I went in-depth on the beta Web browser Arc because, well, the title of my article says it all: “ Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web” (). I regularly use beta software but seldom write about it in TidBITS unless it is sufficiently stable, feature-complete, and interesting. #1681: Take Control Books 20th anniversary, USB-C Apple Pencil, Kini motion detector monitors access, topical social spaces.#1682: Apple’s “Scary Fast” announcement, X.1 updates to 2023 OS versions, Microsoft Word’s 40th anniversary, 5G wireless Internet.#1683: New M3 chips in updated MacBook Pros and iMac, record Apple Q4 profits on lower revenues, no more 27-inch iMacs.#1684: OS bug fix releases, Finder tag poll results, Messages identity verification, blocking spambots, which Apple services do you use?. ![]() #1685: Hidden secrets of the Fn key, Emergency SOS via satellite free access extended, RCS support in Messages, Rogue Amoeba icon evolution.Ultimately, we believe that being able to leverage Apple’s new enhancements is the best way for us to execute on our future roadmap, while keeping development costs low and providing the best value for the majority of our users. We apologize for any disappointment this may cause, and want to assure our users that this decision was not made lightly. We understand that this change may impact some of our users with Macs that cannot be upgraded to macOS 12, or have other circumstances keeping them on macOS 11. Apple is rapidly evolving these technologies with critical new functionality that will significantly reduce the development effort required for our future roadmap. Reasoning for this requirementįuture updates will require macOS 12 because Mimestream makes use of new, cutting-edge Apple technologies like SwiftUI and Swift. It is probable that a future Google API change will eventually cause them to stop functioning correctly. Please note that these versions are no longer maintained or updated. The latest version available at that time may be a post-launch version that requires a paid license. However, if you upgrade macOS to a newer version in the future, our standard beta build expiration policy (60 days from release) will apply, and you will be required to update to the latest available version of Mimestream. These builds will continue to function indefinitely on these OS versions, even after our 1.0 launch, without requiring payment. Continued beta usage on unsupported OS versionsĪs a courtesy to our beta users on macOS 11 or 10.15, we’ve waived our standard beta-build expiration policy while the app is running on these OS versions. If your Mac supports it, we encourage you to upgrade macOS to continue receiving updates to Mimestream. Today, we released Mimestream 0.41.4, which includes a notice that 0.41 will be the last of the Mimestream updates that support macOS 11.įuture updates to Mimestream will now require macOS 12 or newer.
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